The Little Pond, Appledore by Childe Hassam
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The Little Pond, Appledore

Childe Hassam · 1890

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private collection, by 1929 [lent to New York 1929]. Lauren Jay Drake Jr. (1880–1954), Chicago, by 1954; by descent to his niece, Theresa Mary Drake (1914–1982), San Francisco, by 1954; by descent to Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, New Orleans, 1982 [Gwendolyn Boyd’s father, David Boyd, was Theresa Drake's cousin; correspondence from Mr. Andrew Graybar, Dec. 20, 1990, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, 1984; sold to Marshall Field, Chicago, 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Macbeth Gallery, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A. Covering the Period from 1880 to 1919 Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels</em>, Apr. 1929, cat. 4.
  • New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, <em>Childe Hassam, An Island Garden Revisited</em>, Apr. 4–June 10, 1990, cat. 76.
  • Lugano–Castagnola, Switzerland, Fondazione Thyssen–Bornemisza, <em>American Impressionism</em>, July 22–Oct. 28, 1990, cat. 41.
  • Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, <em>American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals</em>, Mar. 20–Nov. 6, 2016; Salem, NC, Peabody Essex Museum, July 16–Nov. 6, 2016, cat. 6.

Literature

Published references

  • Macbeth Gallery, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A.; Covering the Period from 1880 to 1919 Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels</em>, exh. cat. (Macbeth Gallery, 1929), cat. 4.
  • William H. Gerdts, <em>American Impressionism</em> (Abbeville Press, 1984), 21 (ill.).
  • Hirschl & Adler Galleries, <em>The Art of Collecting</em>, exh. cat. (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1984), 36, cat. 24.
  • James N. Wood, <em>Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 95 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Annual Report, 1986–1987</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 7, pl. 10 (ill.).
  • Marvin D. Schwartz, “The Art Institute’s New Wing,” <em>Antiques and the Arts Weekly</em> (Nov. 4, 1988): 1, 60–62 (ill.).
  • Midwest Art History Society, Newsletter 15B (Fall 1988), 5 (ill.).
  • David Park Curry, <em>Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited</em>, exh. cat. (Denver Art Museum, 1990), cat. 76.
  • William H. Gerdts, <em>American Impressionism: Masterworks from Public and Private Collections in the United States</em>, exh. cat. (Pondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1990), cat. 41.
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 273–75, cat. 135 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 110–11, cat. 57 (ill.).
  • Austen Barron Bailly and John W. Coffey, eds., <em>American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals</em>, exh. cat. (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 6.

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